Layoffs. Sales declines. Management turmoil. And one of its biggest revenue streams comes from JCPenney. Things couldn't be further from "a good thing" at MSO.

Revenues declined 13 percent in 2012 to $122 million; and it lost over $18 million in cash from its balance sheet. There was only $20 million left at year end. AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File

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JCPenney

JCPenney's brand is in grave danger under the stewardship of CEO Ron Johnson. It's not likely to literally go extinct this year — which is why we have it at No. 10 in our ranking. But the company is running out of cash (it burned through $54 million last year and has only $121 million left) as it changes its focus from discounts to a format involving name-brand shops within the store itself. The JCPenney will never be the same again.

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Hostess Brands

Hostess, which sells Twinkies, Ho Hos and Drake's cakes, famously went bankrupt in 2012 and its assets have recently been bought by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Company; Drakes was acquired by McKee. The Hostess company now exists in name only. Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Hotmail

Microsoft is killing off the Hotmail brand in favor of Outlook for web email. The brand went off the boil long ago, but its user base was so massive that Gmail only surpassed it in users in November 2012. Photo: Ern, Flickr

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Lotus

The sports car maker had to quash a rumor it was going bankrupt earlier this year after a filing emerged for procedural reasons in a U.K. court. However, the company has been dogged for months by rumors that it may not be viable. It sells only 35 cars per quarter.

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Resarch In Motion

The maker of Blackberry, fighting for survival in a mobile phone market dominated by iPhone and Android, axed its "RIM" moniker in favor of the Blackberry brand earlier this year. It's not clear that the move will be enough to save the company from extinction.

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Herbalife

Activist investor Bill Ackman has shorted 20 million shares of Herbalife on the bet that it's actually a pyramid scheme, not a real company. The firm thinks he's wrong, of course, but this is an existential struggle for Herbalife.

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US Airways

US Airways is acquiring American Airlines, and the new company will be called American Airlines Group — even though US Airways is in charge. Skip Dickstein/Times Union

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MetroPCS

T-Mobile is buying the company. It won't be long before all its stores carry the T-Mobile image of Carly Foulkes in pink and black biker leathers.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Avon

The company refinanced itself this year after this long list of troubles, as described by Bloomberg: "Avon has embarked on a turnaround plan after suffering through declining sales, a bribery investigation and other problems.

It hired new CEO Sheri McCoy last April and has begun to slash costs, hoping to save $400 million in three years, cut its dividend, laid off workers and exited some less profitable markets like Vietnam and South Korea." It's not out of the woods yet. Photo: Alsis, Flickr

Consumer confidence is growing, but employees still aren't sold on the stability of the job market.

A Glassdoor survey of more than 2,000 full-time workers found one in five feared being laid off in the next six months. The survey, which was released today, also found one in four self-employed workers are uncertain about finding work in the next six months.

"The job market is still trepid," said Rusty Rueff, a Glassdoor workplace expert. "The market is in recovery, but it is not boiling over like we thought it would be now."

Rueff said those doubts are likely being caused by an uncertain economy, the sluggish unemployment rate and anecdotal information from friends and co-workers.

The job market is continuing its slow recovery after the recession. The U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent today after the economy added 88,000 jobs in March, according to the Labor Department.

The sluggish job market might be the result of steep government spending cuts that began on March 1.

That isn't the only thing concerning employees, Rueff said.

Even as the Dow posts near all-time highs, employees are seeing stagnant wages and fewer perks. Rueff said employees notice those changes and become wary of what might happen next.

"They think they'll be last to be rewarded, and the first to be punished," he said. "We should be hiring more, but we aren't."

There is a dose of good news.

Nearly half of employees believe their company's outlook will improve over the next six months, likely being fueled by the good economic news on Wall Street, Rueff said.

The Dow hit an all-time higher earlier this week, and several major companies have posted record profits, including Exxon, over the past three months. Productivity has also steadily increased in the workplace, according to the New York Times.

The energy industry has been especially resilient over the last three years as hydraulic fracturing has caused a surge in domestic oil production. The increased production has led to more hiring in the U.S., especially in Houston's energy hub.

Rueff said surging industries, such as energy, are hard to predict for job seekers and current employees.

"It can come out from under you pretty quickly in those types of industries," he said. "People need to be adaptive and be playing chess with their careers, not checkers."